Blood Brothers Quotes

“And if you have been enlightened enough to take the side of the Palestinians​ -oh, bless your hearts​- take our side, because for once you will be on the right side, right? But if taking our side would mean to become one-sided against my Jewish brothers and sisters, back up. We do not need such friendship. We need one more common friend. We do not need one more enemy​...for God's sake​.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you?"
-Fr. Longère”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“If there is a problem somewhere,” he said with his dry chuckle, “this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person—only one—will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel